Manager Software Engineering

Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Manager Software Engineering Overview The Mastercard Business Intelligence Application Development Team builds innovative solutions that position Mastercard as a leader in delivering advanced analytics and reporting capabilities to a global customer base. We collaborate closely with product partners and technical teams to enhance existing products and launch new solutions worldwide. We are seeking a highly skilled engineering leader who will: • Drive architecture, design, and technical strategy for new development initiatives, production support, and platform modernization while ensuring consistent delivery quality across internal teams and vendor partners. • Provide detailed cost and effort estimates, define technical scope and requirements, and partner with project managers and stakeholders to effectively manage scope throughout the project lifecycle. • Lead, mentor, and develop high-performing engineering teams, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, continuous learning, and operational excellence. • Build strong partnerships across Product, Engineering, Quality, and Business teams to align technology execution with business objectives and strategic priorities. Role As part of Mastercard’s Payment Performance Intelligence Program, you will lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable full-stack applications powered by Java-based microservices and modern React or Angular frontends. In this role, you will combine deep technical expertise with strong people leadership to guide multiple engineers through the full software development lifecycle, influence architectural decisions, and drive successful delivery of business-critical initiatives. Key Responsibilities • Provide technical leadership and architectural direction aligned with Mastercard's Enterprise Architecture standards and strategic technology roadmap. • Lead, mentor, and manage a high-performing team of software engineers, fostering technical excellence, career growth, and a collaborative team culture. • Drive execution and delivery of complex engineering initiatives while balancing quality, reliability, scalability, and speed. • Design and implement scalable, resilient, and secure software solutions that meet evolving business requirements. • Write and review high-quality, maintainable code while establishing engineering best practices and development standards. •Establish and promote effective unit, functional, and integration testing practices to validate software quality and system behavior throughout the development lifecycle. •Guide performance engineering efforts to identify bottlenecks and optimize applications for performance, scalability, and reliability. • Ensure platform designs support high availability, resilience, and near zero-downtime production operations. • Collaborate with business partners, product owners, and stakeholders to define product strategy, roadmaps, business cases, and delivery priorities. • Partner with Quality Engineering, Product Management, Infrastructure, and Security teams to ensure successful end-to-end product delivery. • Drive operational excellence through proactive monitoring, automation, incident management, systemic troubleshooting and continuous improvement initiatives. • Lead capac